bottom

verb

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adjective

function as/be located within the bottom portion of a larger whole

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noun

lower side of something
receptive partner during sexual penetration
buttocks
function as/be located within the bottom portion of a larger whole

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbɒ.təm/ / /ˈbɑ.təm/ / [ˈbɑɾəm]

adj

Etymology: PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- ~ *dʰubʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-mḗn Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn Proto-Germanic *butmaz Proto-West Germanic *botm Old English botm Middle English botme English bottom From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz (“bottom; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Cognates Cognate with Yola bothom, bottom (“bottom”), Saterland Frisian Boudem (“floor; ground”), West Frisian boaiem (“floor; ground”), Dutch bodem, boom, boôm (“bottom; ground, soil”), German Boden (“floor; ground; soil”), Limburgish baom (“bottom; ground, soil”), Luxembourgish Buedem (“bottom; earth, soil”), Vilamovian bödum (“bottom; ground”), Danish bund (“bottom”), Elfdalian buottn (“bottom”), Faroese botnur (“bottom”), Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk botn (“bottom”), Norwegian Bokmål botn, bunn (“bottom”), Swedish botten (“bottom”); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic bonn (“base, bottom; sole (of foot)”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar; the bottom of the sea; butt of a tree”), Albanian buzë (“rocky chasm”), Armenian անդունդ (andund), անդունդք (andundkʻ, “abyss, chasm”), Northern Kurdish bin (“bottom”), Persian بن (bon, “bottom”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”). The noun sense “posterior of a person” is first attested in 1794; the verb sense “to reach the bottom of” is first attested in 1808. The term bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is first attested in 1882.

The lowest or last place or position.
“Those files should go on the bottom shelf.”
Relating to the genitals.
“bottom dysphoria”
“bottom surgery”

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun bottom. Compare Botham. * As a French name, mistranslated from Lafond, in which Old French la fond (“the fountain”) is confused with modern le fond (“the bottom”).

A surname.

noun

The lowest part of anything.
“barrels with the bottoms knocked out”
“a great ship’s kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out”
The lowest part of anything.
“The Red Sox are at the bottom again.”
The lowest part of anything.
“There’s a hole in her pyjama bottoms.”
The lowest part of anything.
“In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%.”
The lowest part of anything.
The lowest part of anything.
“bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs”
The lowest part of anything.
“a soda and a bottom of brandy”
The lowest part of anything.
“single-bottom plow”
“three-bottom plow”
The remotest or innermost part of something.
“Near-synonym: fundus (anatomical)”
“There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.”
The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
“get to the bottom of it”
“Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the bottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond.”
Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
“Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?”
“The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.”
Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
The buttocks or anus.
“Calvin, if you shoot that paper clip at me, I'll get your bottom hauled to the principal's office so fast you'll think you were in a time warp!!”
The bed of a body of water.
An abyss.
“In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode / The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God”
A cargo vessel, a ship.
“We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]”
Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
“My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.”
“Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.”
A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
“James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.”
A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
“Since what I wanted to do was be a bottom, a masochist, I had to learn that you could do it and be safe, that you could do it and not sign your life away, that you could do it by agreement, and that it was still fun.”
Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
“lack bottom”
Power of endurance.
“This was why Dee had always ridden a buckskin; a man following his kind of trails needed a horse with bottom, and a line-back like this one never wore out.”
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
“the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.”
A trundle or spindle of thread.
“Edward Hoby of Bisham in Berkshire, Esq; Or, a Fess, Sable, between three Hobby-Hawks, proper; otherwise, Azure, three Bottoms in Fess, Gules.”
“BOTTOM, a trundle or quill of gold thread. See TRUNDLE. Argent three bottoms, in fess gules, the thread or; name, Hoby, of Badland.”
Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Ellipsis of bottom quark.

verb

To furnish (something) with a bottom.
“to bottom a chair”
To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
“We shall bid that thoughtful waiter place beside him, near and handy, / Large supplies of soda water, tumblers bottomed well with brandy, […]”
To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
“As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.”
To establish or found (something) on or upon.
“But an absurd opinion concerning the king’s hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.”
“those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state”
To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
“My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.”
To be based or grounded.
“c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms'.”
To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
“allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering or bottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole.”
To reach the bottom of something.
“Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close.”
To fall to the lowest point.
“The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24.”
To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
To take on the receptive role during intercourse.
“I've never bottomed in my life.”
“Daw hadn’t bottomed in a long time. He hadn’t had sex in a year.”